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On Sunday January 15th, 2023 Milt Brown was called home to be with his Lord, leaving behind his loving wife of 63 years Marie “Rosie” Brown, four children Charlene (Ken), Suzanne (Noel), Jeffrey (Helen) and Jonathan (Salena), 10 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. He will be welcomed home by his parents Jim and Emma Brown and his first daughter Christine.
Milt was born in the small fishing village of Creston Newfoundland in August 1938 and told many stories of his childhood there. He attended a two room school house and on his first day of school the teacher established her authority by strapping all of the boys. He and the other boys got their revenge by icing the door lock in winter. He moved with his parents and sister Bertha to Toronto in 1950 where his mother spent 17 months in the Toronto Sanatorium for Tuberculosis. This was a lonely time for Milt, as he was virtually on his own and teased for both his ‘Newfie’ accent and lack of academics. Always a competitive man, Milt worked hard to lose his accent and within a year had moved from having the lowest grade in class to the highest. He also played on many sports teams throughout high school, embedding a love of hockey and baseball that stayed with him throughout his life.
Milt met the love of his life, Marie Mathewson in February 1956 at a house party of mutual Salvation Army friends. After a rocky start, they married in May of 1959 when they were both 20 years old and moved into a little flat off Dufferin Street before buying their first house only seven months later – 9 Humber Blvd, the house that Marie had grown up in and where they had four of their of five children. Christine, their firstborn, died at 3 months of age.
After 10 years working as a bookkeeper at Kodak, Milt felt called to the ministry and so left Kodak to study at the Central Baptist Seminary from 1968 – 1972, where he graduated as his class valedictorian. He began a long career in this ministry that started at Ellwood Baptist Church in Bolton and ended 40 years later at Lakeview Baptist Church in Virginia Ontario.
Milt was a loving father to his four children and especially loved coaching his oldest son Jeff in hockey and baseball. An outdoorsy person his whole life, he found joy in playing basketball in the backyard of his home in Bolton, creating large and bountiful gardens in every home he owned, chopping wood at his mother-in-law’s cottage, golfing at Orange Lake Resort and walking in the evenings with his wife, Marie.
Milt spent the last years of his life in Windsor, where he and Marie moved in 2014 to be close to two of their children and many grandchildren. His sense of humour will be sorely missed by Marie, his children, his sons and daughters in law, grandchildren, great grandchildren, his past parishioners and many family friends.
“I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ”
Philippians 1:6
Visitation Wednesday January 18, 2023 from 1 pm until the time of the Funeral Service at 2 pm at Campbell Baptist Church (1821 Wyandotte St W.). Interment at Langford Cemetery, Bracebridge, ON. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Families First 3260 Dougall Ave. South Windsor, 519-969-5841.
2023
Décès pour la Ville:Windsor, Province: Ontario
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